Only some 250 light-years distant, Spica is a blue-white star nearly 2,000 times brighter than our ... With the Moon rising ...

Take in some color along the way, from blue-white Regulus to orange R Leonis ... Named for a sea goddess in Greek mythology, this classic main-belt asteroid orbiting beyond Mars was discovered ...

In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid belt. Where do meteorites of different type come ...

"We now have the first outlines of a geologic map of the asteroid belt." Ten years ago, Jenniskens teamed up with astronomer Hadrien Devillepoix of Curtin University and colleagues in Australia to ...

Asteroids of this size regularly pass through the Earth's neighborhood, often unnoticed, unless they are actively tracked by ...

A massive asteroid, 535844 (2015 BY310), will pass near Earth at a distance of approximately 3.7 million kilometers on March 5, 2025. Traveling at 28,300 kilometers per hour, it poses no immediate ...

A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling toward the planet. The NEO Surveyor, set to launch in 2027, is the first spacecraft ...

Most of the time these asteroids remain restrained within that interplanetary belt ... the asteroid, the bigger it will be. But its colour also affects the brightness as a small white asteroid ...

“Space is incredibly, profoundly empty,” Fuls said. “We don’t even check when we send probes through the asteroid belt.” Movies depict the belt as crowded and rock-filled, when in fact ...

Asteroids—small, rocky masses left over from the formation of the solar system around 4.6 billion years ago—are found concentrated in the main asteroid belt, orbiting around the sun between ...

Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth known as the so-called "city killer." "This one got a lot of attention because it rose to a threat level that we just have not seen ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 poses a potential risk to the Moon, with a 1.7% chance of collision despite Earth now being safe. If it impacts, it could form a large crater and create meteoroids, affecting ...